Daily AncestorCensus words
Enumerator, head of household and the words census takers wrote in the columns. Free to print and share. Full explanations: dailyancestor.com/dictionary/census-terms
- 1890 veterans schedule
- 1890 special list of Union veterans and widows
- Agricultural schedule
- 1850 to 1880 farm-by-farm form of land, stock and crops
- All other free persons
- 1790 to 1810 column of free people not counted as white
- Assistant marshal
- Census taker of 1790 to 1870, under the U.S. marshal
- Beat
- Mississippi or Alabama county division
- Blind
- Census disability entry: unable to see
- Cannot read, cannot write
- Census mark that a person could not read or write
- Census day
- The date all census answers refer to
- Census year
- The twelve months before census day
- Deaf and dumb
- Census disability entry: unable to hear or speak
- Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes schedules
- 1880 forms on the disabled, poor and imprisoned
- Dwelling number
- House number in the order the census taker visited
- Enumeration district
- Area assigned to one census taker (E.D.)
- Enumerator
- The census taker who visited each household
- Family number
- Household number in the order visited
- Free colored persons
- 1820 to 1840 count of free people of African descent
- Free white males
- 1790 to 1840 tally columns of men and boys by age
- Fugitives from the State
- Slave schedule count of escapes in the past year
- Head
- First person listed, others related to him or her
- Home owned or rented
- O or R: whether the family owned its home
- Home-maker
- 1930 mark (H) for who ran the home
- Hundred
- Delaware county division (in place of a township)
- Idiotic
- Old census entry: intellectual disability from early life
- Indian schedule
- 1900 and 1910 form with tribe and Indian name
- Indians not taxed
- Reservation or tribal Indians left out of the count
- Informant mark
- 1940 circled X: who gave the answers
- Insane
- Census disability entry: judged mentally ill
- Lodger
- Rented a room but ate elsewhere, not family
- Manufactures schedule
- Census form for each mill or workshop and its owner
- Manumitted
- Freed from slavery by the owner
- Married within the year
- Census mark: married in the past twelve months
- Mortality schedule
- 1850 to 1880 list of deaths in the past year
- Mother of how many children
- Children ever born to a woman, and how many living
- Mulatto
- Census race label: mixed African and European ancestry
- Number of years of present marriage
- 1900 and 1910: full years married to current spouse
- Octoroon
- 1890 census label: one-eighth or any trace of black ancestry
- Partner
- Unrelated person sharing the home as an equal
- Precinct
- Election or justice district used as county division
- Quadroon
- 1890 census label: one-fourth black ancestry
- Radio set
- 1930 mark R: the family owned a radio
- Residence April 1, 1935
- 1940 question: where the person lived five years before
- Right to vote denied or abridged
- 1870 mark: man barred from voting
- Sample line
- Marked line whose person got extra questions
- Slave schedule
- 1850 and 1860 form counting enslaved people by owner
- Supervisor's district
- Larger area run by a census supervisor (S.D.)
- Supplemental schedule
- 1890 extra form for the sick, disabled or confined
- Survivor of the Union or Confederate Army or Navy
- 1910 codes UA, UN, CA, CN for Civil War veterans
- Township or other division of county
- Census heading for the local unit within a county
- Usual place of abode
- The home where a person normally lived
- Ward of city
- Numbered district of a city on the census heading